Rheum may be used as a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional (botanical). Homeopathic potencies accredit their strength and efficacy to the electromagnetic signatures of the original substrate; these are scientifically created dilutions and succussions of medicines such that generally not even a molecule of the original substrate or medicine is present in the medicine.

As a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional, Rheum has demonstrated effectiveness against the following symptomology: colicky pain about the navel; colic when uncovering; wind (gas) seems to rise up into the chest; -before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate; -stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus and burning in anus; -colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools (Boericke).